Canada Post will not be issuing a Year of the Tiger stamp for the 2022 Lunar New Year. A spokeswoman tells The Virtual Stamp Club that Canada in 2021 issued a retrospective of the entire 2009 to 2020 Lunar New Year Series. “That release was the final issue from the collection that began in 1997, each year featuring beautiful and intricate designs created 
and designed by talented artists and designers,” said Eunice Machuhi in response to an email from The VSC. “As a result there will not be a third issue in 2022.”
Canada’s 2010 Year of the Tiger stamp is shown here. For the last series, CPC issued both “Permanent” domestic-rate and an International-rate stamps. Last year’s retrospective consisted of all 24 designs, with the domestic designs in two different denominations.
“The Stamp Advisory Committee makes every effort to establish a balanced annual stamp program that reflects the many varied aspects of our nation, but there are only a limited number of subjects that can be accommodated each year,” Machuhi adds. “The final decisions are always difficult ones, even though so many are worthy of commemoration on our stamps.”
She ended the email by pointing out that the 2023 stamp programme will be announced in November or December of this year, which might indicate the possibility of a third Lunar New Year series beginning then.
Hello and thank you for the opportunity to leave Response. So it is with great disappointment to be informed the Lunar New Year Stamp series has ended. The decision making with each stamp of the Series evidently takes much creativity from all the very talented artists, the selection of each artist which contributes imagination and historical knowledge to create such beautiful works of art. Of course, personal choice leads to personal favorites such as the 2010 Year of the Tiger ! They are all works of art.
I very much hope both The Stamp Advisory Committee and Canada Post reconsider the decision to “pause” the Lunar New Year Series and makes the decision to bring back the Lunar New Year Series beginning 2023. Please.
(Also, I wish I had been informed the 2021 had the Retrospective.)
Thank you! I am looking forward to some positive news for 2023.
I would bet my house — well, your house 🙂 — that a new Lunar New Year series begins in Canada next year. See the last paragraph of the story. Why else mention the 2023 programme specifically in the response?